It's carnival time in Toronto!

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Toronto's Caribbean Carnival, popularly known as Caribana, involves a series of events culminating in the Grand Parade on the first weekend of August. Attracting well over 1 million visitors to Canada's biggest city, the carnival is officially North America's biggest street party. The Parade starts around midday until dusk and follows a course around Exhibition Place and Lakeshore Boulevard in Downtown Toronto. While there is an entrance fee of $25 to watch the parade at the main judging stage, one can watch the parade on the rest of the route absolutely free of charge.


As you would normally expect for a Caribbean carnival, the atmosphere was truly electric; happy people of various ethnic backgrounds dressed in colourful costumes dancing to the latest soca anthems, endless kiosks selling tasty Caribbean-inspired meals and so on. The thing I find most thrilling about these carnivals is how people of various backgrounds put their differences aside and just let the rhythm take over! Who knows, with more carnivals, we just might solve many of the world's problems!

Afroglobetrotter was right there to capture the event...




 







































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